Laxton v. Laxton

WIEAND, Judge:

Where a wife has commenced an action for divorce based on indignities to her person 1 and has obtained from the master a recommendation that she be divorced from her husband, may the court, acting on a petition by the husband, enter a decree of divorce despite the wife’s opposition? This is the principal issue in this case.

On August 12, 1977, the wife commenced an action in divorce in which she alleged that her husband had been guilty of a course of conduct constituting indignities to her person. After a hearing before a Master on April 20, 1978, the Master found the wife to be…